Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s selfie with his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni has broken the internet with hashtag ‘Melodi’ trending on X (formerly Twitter). The photograph received over 52.3K responses by Saturday morning.
Modi and Meloni met in Dubai during the United Nations ‘Conference of the Parties’ on climate, known as COP28, where the 46-year-old Italian leader — who seems to be well-versed with the social media trends — clicked the selfie and captioned it ‘#Melodi’. The hashtag has been derived by combining the surnames of the two leaders.
The netizens couldn’t keep calm as soon as they saw the picture, flooding social media with memes. Meloni’s picture, so far, has received 10.7 million views and over 169k likes.
Some used the viral trending song ‘just looking like a WOW‘ by Yashraj Mukhate and mashed it up with different pictures of Meloni, others used popular dialogues from Bollywood movies to describe the selfie.
A section of internet users even pointed out that the two prime minister were twinning in white, and called it “selfie of the year”.
Taking a swipe at the Italian connection of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, some even suggested that PM Modi should invite Meloni to India for his 2024 Lok Sabha campaign to give a befitting reply to “an Italian by an Italian”.
For the unversed, Rahul Gandhi’s mother, Sonia Gandhi, was reportedly born in a small village near Italy’s Vicenza. After completing her primary education at local schools, she moved to Cambridge, England, where she met Rajiv Gandhi, and later married him in 1968.
A video of the two leaders chatting at the COP28 summit has also gone viral. The two stood for a photograph with all the leaders when she were seen laughing and talking.
‘Good friends’, Narendra Modi and Giorgia Meloni, were first noticed by the internet during G20 summit in India earlier this year.
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Across Twitter, Instagram, and Reddit, users shared videos of Modi and Meloni interacting at the summit. This resulted in multiple memes, with some posts receiving millions of views and hundreds of thousands of likes on Instagram.
Some clips of Modi greeting Meloni were overlaid with Bollywood movie songs, where people appreciated their chemistry.
Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE)
first published: December 02, 2023, 09:36 IST
Aisha Patel is a dedicated Indian correspondent with a deep understanding of the nation’s diverse affairs. With a background in Indian culture, politics, and current events, she provides in-depth analysis and timely reporting on domestic issues within India.
